Environmental management project development with multi-sector involvement
in the Least Developed Countries

Overview

The importance of strengthening academic resources on environmental management
in the least developed countries cannot be overemphasized in order to achieve
sustainable development in those countries. The focus of this component
is to establish sustainable research/educational activities by assisting
such academic institutes access to external funds. In order to mainstream
faculty members’ focuses on their academic obligations and assist them to
build their sustainable research resources, this component examines effectiveness
and efficiency of small research grants as seed funds in combination with
cross-sector involvement and research proposal capacity development. The
multi-sector involvement of private sectors, NGOs, and governments is intended
to help link the target academic activities on environmental management
to site-specific field environmental problems with sustained financial resources.
The target academic institutes will be selected in principle from the UN’s
Least Developed Countries list. The selection of the candidate academic
institute and researchers will be made with candidates with any previous
participation in the UNU’s programmes and projects given the highest priority.
The resulting outputs will be monitored and reflected into the small research
grant policy.